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All About Engraving on Horse Brasses
A fifty-six page reference manual featuring examples of recent counterfeit hand-engraving, on antique brasses, most of them shown in actual size. Colour and black-and-white. Of particular interest and a warning to collectors of award and saddlers brasses.
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Award Brasses
Harness decoration especially for parades market days and other social events gave horsemen an opportunity to demonstrate pride in the way they presented their animals. This was encouraged by organiations such as the R.S.P.C.A and qreatly improved the well being of the working horse.
"Award Brasses by the various parade organisers described and illustrated in this book became highly sought after as they were won rather than purchased.
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Brewery Brasses (First Edition)
"Brewery Horse Brasses" A well written booklet by NHBS member and Fleet Street Journalist Gron Williams describing the history of breweries long gone and the brasses associated with them
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Brewery Brasses (Revised Edition)
A revised, second volume about "Brewery Horse Brasses" with even more illustrations of the brasses worn by British Breweries in the hey-day of the heavy horse.
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Collecting Horse Brasses Vol. I
The first in the series of eight featuring over 400 brasses. It is hoped "Collecting Horse Brasses series of books will fulfil the needs of today's collectors the author has tried to achieve a ballance between photographs and text. After each paragraph a rarity value is given to each brass from 0 to 7 the higher the figure the rarer the brass.
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Collecting Horse Brasses Vol. II
The second in the series numbered on from the first; 406-807 Another must have for the collector.
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Collecting Horse Brasses Vol. III
The third in the series numbered on 810-1239 the first four pages of this volume dedicated to swingers and tumblers followed by numerous pattern brasses
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Collecting Horse Brasses Vol.VI (Royalty Brasses)
The revised version of an earlier publication and the sixth in the series of Collecting Horse Brasses covering those brasses issued by manufacturers to help horsemen celebrate the Jubilees and Coronations from Victoria to Elizabeth II.
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Collecting Horse Brasses Vol.VII (Manufacturers Catalogues)
Volume seven in the series of Collecting Horse Brasses includes a series of facsimilie reproductions taken from pages in the various manufacturers catalogues c.1880-1905.
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Collecting Horse Brasses Vol V
Volume five in the series numbered on 1671-2041 another must have for the collector.
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Collecting Horse Brasses Vol. IV
The fourth in the series numbered on 1255-1655 another must have for the collector.
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Collecting Horse Brasses Vol.VIII
Volume eight and final in the series. Volumes I to VIII displayed, photographed and evaluated more that 2000 designs making it one of the most comprehensive series of booklets in the subject of "Collecting Horse Brasses"
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Horse Bells (Second Edition)
Roads were narrow, waggons were big and heavy "Horse Bells" housed in frames to create belfries gave advanced warning to other road users. Smaller versions were also used for a variety of reasons amply described in this publication
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More About Engraving on Horse Brasses
Volume two of these editions which display, and record, in full size, the "dark netherworld of spurious engravings" on antique brasses, which have been produced in recent years.
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Parade Horse Brasses
"Parade Horse Brasses" wrtten by Michael and Peter Ferguson is the second NHBS publication dealing with award brasses, these brasses were proudly cherished and displayed by their recipients and now equally by collectors
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Power in Brass
The latest in our extensive publication list is this excellent volume by Gron Williams, which focuses on the brasses and horse power used in industry in the earlier half of the last century. This volume runs to 28 pages and gives us an insight into the importance of the draft horse in the days when these animals still dominated the short haulage work in the towns and cities.
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Railway Horse Brasses
Many horses were used in the distribution of goods from the goods yards of the railway's, this book ilustrates the various brasses often depicting the steam engine, and the many blinker studs, rosettes, hame plates, and nosebands associated with railway companies.
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Saddler’s Brasses
It does what it say's on the cover, excellent pictures and descriptions of "Saddlers Brasses" nosebands and studs sometimes attached to harness by its makers.
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The Collectors Anthology of Antique Horse Brasses Volume One
Anthology Vol’s I & II are hard cover books with superb hi-res colour pictures and descriptions of groups of brasses that might be considered the best of the best!!! They are books for the collector containing pictures of brasses most of us would love to own!!.
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The Collectors Anthology of Antique Horse Brasses Volume Two
Anthology Vol’s I & II are hard cover books with superb hi-res colour pictures and descriptions of groups of brasses that might be considered the best of the best!!! They are books for the collector containing pictures of brasses most of us would love to own!!.
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